The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The finale of Sergio Leone's Three Dollars spaghetti-western trilogy (after A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). Clint Eastwood returns as the 'Man With No Name', this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000 - and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. Sun-drenched panoramas and bold, hard close-ups capture the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape and the hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it.